 Welcome to another video in the 23 part series collection 23 Michael Jordan videos in 23 days Today, we're looking at the day that Jeff Van Gundy called MJ a con man Now you've probably heard this story, but I don't think you've heard it with NBA legends that were involved on this day Talking about it together. We have players like Patrick Ewing, Michael Jordan, the man himself Van Gundy, Alan Houston, Larry Johnson Every NBA legend that was involved in this day that talks about it is involved in this video, too So if you're ready for the video help me out by hitting that like button Let's aim for 3000 likes subscribe if you are new and are ready for MJ videos coming to you every day in December and Without further ado, I hope you guys enjoy the video and here's the day that Jeff Van Gundy called Michael Jordan a con man Let me read from that chapter. I actually had that page pulled Here's a quote one of you is gonna step up knock Michael Jordan on the floor and not help him up We can't show him deference just because who he is or how good he is not anymore You can achieve whatever you want in life, but no one especially Michael Jordan is gonna give it to you You have to take it Michael isn't just gonna play poorly You have to force him to play that way close quote. That's from Pat Riley So how did he get the rest of the Knicks to buy into the toughness that he felt was necessary to compete at that level? He even had my friend Charles Oakley saying we can't go to lunch We can't go to dinner because Pat doesn't believe in fraternizing between the two of us And this guy hit me harder than anybody else in the league and he was my best friend Patrick you and we had the same major we came out the same time, but we couldn't go to lunch Why is this you think I'm gonna play against Patrick any different than I play against anybody else? No And then you had your little guy who was on your staff who became the Knicks coach after you Jeff Van Gundy Any regrets about the comments made someone ingest about Michael Jordan What's that now? You regret saying some of the things about the course of the week about Michael Jordan I didn't say anything this week about him His way is to befriend them to soften them up make them feel like he cares about them And then he goes out there and physically tries to destroy him. I don't go on the court expecting You know to make friends I brought them to put it in basketball like I know how to play Michael Jordan is always on the lookout for extra motivation Today Michael returns to Broadway now. It's time for the New York players to do the talking The whole thing with Jeff is you got the tension you got their history You got the physicality at the time the Knicks and the Bulls were big rivals and I Didn't have time to think about and appreciate That you're playing against You know probably the best player to ever play Michael Jordan had some of his biggest games and now Alan Houston had problems. Yeah last year Michael Jordan had his season high against Alan He's the leader. He is he's a self-motivator and he tried to motivate his team Unfortunately, you know Mike Mike became Mike, so I talked to Phil before the game and he said Mike might get 45 or 50 tonight How come he predicted that Michael upset that Van Gundy had said that Jordan uses friendships and stature To con some of his opponents we talked about this earlier with Michael and asked is this still ongoing in terms of the Unhappiness about those statements. It's never forgotten. I think You know when you hear certain things like that you put them in the memory bank and you use them whenever you feel you had the need to and You know, that's why I hadn't really forgotten it You've rubbed me the wrong way then and if I hear it now I still rub me the wrong way because that was never my intent. I was good friends with Oak I was good friends with Patrick. I get along with everybody. But at the same time when the light comes on I'm the competitive anybody, you know, I felt like that was inappropriate for him to say something like that No, I don't have any regrets. I told the truth and he had a big night Van Gundy had said that Jordan uses friendships and stature to con some of his opponents He cons him by inviting him to his movies. He cons him with the commercials He pretends to enjoy guys and and like them and befriend So good and has done it for so long that there is this You know in such a mystique about him that and everybody wants to be like him, you know be as good as he is Make as much money as he is be able to do all the off the court things that you watch him game in game out He saddles up next to guys who smiles at him pats him on the ass and then you know goes out there and kicks their ass And they you know and they hug him after the game like that was some great thing that you got 45 on them So I don't understand it Ewing and Longley tip it off Chicago in losing to Houston on Sunday shot less than 40 percent Jordan gets his first of the night. That's three turnovers for New York in their last five possessions It's for the Chicago balls to get their first lead of the night now Ewing knocks it right back in the hands Mr. Jordan my bad breaks Patrick Ewing deflects the ball. It goes back to that man wide open to the basket five turnovers in the last Jordan now Larry Johnson with the switch I tell you he's filming it. You can see his face. He expects to be back Sunday at home against Miami. Here's Jordan posting up again vines Jordan Jordan for the bulls Giles back on Jordan Jordan has 34 and Randy Brown. He got the start tonight. Here's Jordan. Nobody there to guard him They went to Patrick Ewing with Bill Winnington on them double team Patrick Ewing So they're good guys and get breeze Yeah, great play by Michael Jordan great Randy Brown kicks it out to Jordan for three Here comes Jordan Johnson picks him up defensively Michael goes for 41 And that's hurt the team and that one was a big Jordan A Jordan role. Yeah, he has a lot of good roads Michael Jordan hands a 17 to 2 run. He's got 45, but it's a four-point game Now it'll be interesting I think Jeff and Gundy may call that timeout because he said the last six minutes of the game They don't want Michael Jordan taking shots Michael Jordan made that shot. He called an immediate timeout He wants him to get into a good play obviously, but he also wants more help with Michael from this point on He wants somebody else other than Michael to beat the case Alan Houston garden Michael three moves And this time he glances at you. Yeah, he said he's a glance at all of us We caught up being put in a blender fourth quarter one ten to go Jordan in the post over Houston And they said he wasn't gonna get the shot Jeff Bill Jackson told dick for sace before the game in the locker room that Michael Jordan was upset with some comments Van Gundy had made because Jeff Van Gundy had said George With his friendships with other players around the league Lows them into a false feeling of friendship and then strikes like a viper. Well, well, he's a snake right now 18 of 30 including in the fourth quarter ready for this 12 of 14 Not surprisingly Michael would burn the Knicks all game long Season high 51 points left Van Gundy and the Knicks speechless Did you take it personally when Ben Gundy called you a con man? Yes, you had some words for him What did you say? And were you aware of his comments? I wouldn't want to say what I said on TV What did you say to him after that last basket? I noticed on the last basket you took a hard look at the Nick bench I did He said I conned the players I befriended them and then I attack them on the basketball court What did that come from? He'd read the paper and saw the comments was in the paper and what do you say to you guys after the game? No, he was just mentioned that he'd read the thing and taught about how Van Gundy said He was a con man and and he was in his friendships on the court to to take advantage of other players on other teams And but Michael likes that he likes challenges He likes guys to get on because it forces him and makes him drives him to be a better player You know, I was aware of his comments and you know when I'm on the basketball court I compete, you know when I step off the basketball court I leave everything that happened on the basketball court on the basketball court I respect every player in this league and y'all have friends in this league and I don't ask them I hope they don't change their approach to me on the basketball court because I don't change my approach to them I was able to make some big shots everybody knew the ball was coming to him But you knew you had to stop him So you gotta give him credit when Jordan scores all the points usually the other guys look around and watch Michael's gonna get here, but we just have to limit the other people But we just didn't cause to do a good enough job. There's nothing to say He's one of the best players to ever play this game is the best player to play in my era. I already know how great Michael was It had some sense of extra motivation, but I didn't really Go too deep, you know, because I'm a little bit bigger than that and quite naturally I didn't want his mind games to play with me. I was good friends with oh, I was good friends with Patrick But I'm not trying to con them to play a different style to play against me My game was the same you come in the paint Mike. No, you're jerseys after color come I got to step up and that's my job take charges and you know defense my defense I was ankle in New York and we had a real good defense always in the top five and everything So Michael what does jump shot once I got traded because he knew He talked about yeah, I was born in the wrong time, but yeah, you know hey He knew if he came out of that lane, he's gonna have to pay a toll I mean that to me is like attacking my basketball skills as a sense of saying only when you win is you make these guys think that you like No, I actually do like it. It's business Mike want to win. I want to win So at the end of the day shake your hand go step a ways Oakley almost try to take my head off every time we play and then we go to dinner after that He played me no different than if he was playing me if I did go to dinner I had to do the same thing play defense Paul to Miller and let him know that it's still you can't come down the land I'm still here. You know for me. I was pissed and here's Michael Jordan. Childs picks him up Because if he gets hot There's nothing I can do look at this Michael Jordan is just bigger. He's stronger He can jump higher and on the post Chris childs needs help, but the Bulls don't like giving help So he's probably gonna be down there by himself most of the night Because he's six six and he gets down to 13 feet, you know, I can push him out to 15 16 Then I have the advantage and so I said Jeff, let me start on Mike. No John has Mike. Okay So Mike had 35 in the first half. That's why Chris childs is on Michael Jordan So Jeff's like all right Chris. You got him. I was like bullshit He's like, yeah, I told you So I went out there I filed in five straight times I was like, you know, we have 55 on me and I went and sat down Because once he gets going there's nothing you can do. It was really nothing you could do We wanted to not let Jordan take shots, but we just didn't want everybody else to To get off and let there be a lot of balance in their score. So Michael knew Kind of what areas he wanted to go to so when you were defending him he would kind of set you up one way and get to one spot and just elevate and It was really nothing you could do because he got off the ground so quick And then we when he was able to shoot the ball better and better every year It just made it that much more difficult. That's when you become really really good as an individual and as a team And that's what he was very good at. He's the only one that I can remember that was able to score that many points against us You know, so it was you know, you give homage to MJ Listen, I'm I'm a guy who challenged Jordan called him a con man, right? Jordan join with Jeff Van Gundy and Don Cheney on the bench. Yeah, yeah So I'm speaking from experience like, you know in my mind in in a one-game setting If I had first pick all time, there's no doubt who I'm taking and it's Michael Jordan And I hope you guys enjoyed the second video in the 23 part series collection of Michael Jordan If you did please help me out by hitting that like button Subscribe if you are new hit that notification button and here are two new MJ videos that I think you may enjoy as well Now I will catch you guys tomorrow in the next one. Peace